Word: sallow
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sallow Julius Rosenberg and his wife were led away. Later, in their adjoining cells, the Rosenbergs sang to each other: her choice was Puccini's One Fine Day, his The Battle Hymn of the Republic...
...jury that judged them spent seven hours and 42 minutes deliberating the sordid record of how the A-bomb-and such other secrets as the proximity fuse-were handed over to the Kremlin. To help them decide, the jurors had the testimony of sallow, penitent Harry Gold, a Philadelphia biochemist now serving 30 years because he was a courier for the atomic spy ring, and David Greenglass, a former Los Alamos technician who testified not only to his own but also to his sister's and his wife's parts in the espionage operations...
...Slight, sallow Valdo Magnani, 38, college-trained in economics and philosophy, had joined the party in 1936, fought in Fascist Italy's army (as an artillery captain) until Mussolini's downfall, then switched to the partisan anti-Fascist forces. In 1946 he emerged as Reggio Emilia's ace Communist organizer. Militant, tireless, persuasive, he gained 10,000 new party members for his province in the past two years, a time of dwindling ranks for Italian Communism in general. In 1948 he was handily elected to the national Chamber of Deputies...
Nobody ever called Joseph Senatore a typical American boy. Joe is skinny and his shoulders are narrow; his sharp, wise-guy face is sallow and pimply. While other kids were joining the Boy Scouts, Joe was exploring back alleys and hanging around street corners. While other youngsters were preparing for college, Joe was serving time on a robbery...
...Sallow, pasty-faced Chemist Harry Gold of Philadelphia had lost 50 lbs. since the FBI jailed him last summer. The man who was spy Klaus Fuchs's go-between in passing top U.S. atomic secrets to Russia had improved his hours in jail by dieting. With the shrunken look of an underprivileged cat, he slipped into the witness chair of a Manhattan federal courtroom one morning last week to testify against two of his old cronies. They were Chemical Engineer Abe Brothman, 36, and Brothman's assistant, spirited Miriam Moskowitz, 34, both accused of obstructing the U.S. Government...